The opportunity timeline

• Overview

  Carlyle Group is hiring a VP of Sales in Oceanside, CA.

• Role description

  We're searching for a storyteller and strategist to lead campaigns as our next VP of Sales based in Oceanside. This position rewards Customer Retention and BANT Qualification mastery with $231,000 - $367,000, team collaboration, and ownership of what you ship.

  Key Responsibilities

  • Feed sales the ZoomInfo signals that say a buyer is ready now
  • Pitch, listen, adjust, and pitch again until the sales marketing deal lands
  • Represent Carlyle Group at trade shows, conferences, and local networking events
  • Sit in on demos and tighten the script after every loss
  • Support vp account executives with prospecting and follow-up strategy
  • Brief the VP of Sales team on what's working in this week's market
  • Pitch upsells that feel like favors, not invoices

  What You'll Bring

  • Prior experience working on-site in Oceanside, CA, or willingness to relocate
  • Comfort being accountable for a deeply-curious outcome in an internship role
  • The diplomacy to align stakeholders who don't agree yet
  • The composure to deliver bad news early and clearly

  Carlyle Group is a small but feedback-hungry CA company that punches well above its weight in the sales marketing space. We swap Zoho CRM and Gong tips over lunch because nobody here pretends to know it all.

  You join at $231,000 - $367,000, grow with a mentor, lean on benefits, and flex your hours so Oceanside fits work instead of the reverse.

  This Oceanside, CA role just got a fresh timestamp, and applications are flowing in.

  The candidates who apply early at Carlyle Group are the ones we remember, so be early.

• Required skills

  • BANT Qualification
  • Value Selling
  • Sales Enablement
  • ZoomInfo
  • Gong
  • Consultative Selling
  • Prospecting
  • Customer Retention
  • Zoho CRM
  • RFP Response
  • Active Listening
  • Resilience
  • Multitasking

• Benefits & perks

  • Acupuncture coverage
  • Weight management programs
  • Game room and recreation space
  • Vacation Days
  • Paid volunteer days
  • Conference Attendance
  • Annual learning stipend
  • Personal Days
  • Gender-affirming care coverage
  • Global mobility program
  • Flexible scheduling
  • Eldercare support
  • Game Room
  • Company Car

• Apply before 2026-08-22

  Submit your application for this Internship sales_marketing position.